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INFORMATIVE NOTE

8/4/75

Date

White Hotse has instructed that the Intel-
ligence’ Community prepare a briefing for

\Senatgrs Church and Tower of the SSC
jregafding warrantless electronic surveil-

lances and surreptitious entries. During

meetings of the Intelligence Community, it
was agreed that NSA, FBI and CIA would give
the briefings. No date has been scheduled
for the briefings, although it is antici-

pated representatives of the White House _
will monitor a preview of the actual brief
ing to be given Senators Church and Tower.

; During meetings of the Intelligence
Community representatives, to discuss the
contents of such a briefing, it was agreed
among representatives of NSA, CIA and FBI
that efforts would be made to avoid identi
fying specific foreign targets of surrepti

jtious entries or warrantless electronic

surveillances. .
.Attached is a memorandum from CIA

ACTION: For info Mn and record purposes


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On 8/6/75, Daniel M. (Mac) Armstrong, I, who was
on the personal staff of former Acting Director Gray, called to advise
that he had been contacted by John Elliff.. He had known Eliff casually
during the confirmation hearings regarding Mr. Gray. Elliff told him.
that he was personally interested in determining background on two m
which were: (1) the decision to abolish the Crime Records Division;
(2) the Legal Attache program.

Armstrong told him that he had no knowledge concerning the |
Crime Records Division and had not even learned of its abolishment until 7
after the fact. Armstrong referred Elliff to Dave Kinley regarding that.
topic. Armstrong said that Elliff did not want to talk to him concerning the Vi
Legal Attache program over the phone and said he would contact him in thef’ , Y
near future for an appointment to see him personally, _ L
Armstrong said he was passing this information along to us iti
order to keep us advised of his contacts with the Senate Select Committee
concerning his Bureau information which came to him as a result of his

Bureau employment.
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MEMORANDUM

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to avoid identifying specific foreign targets of the various

be given to Senators Church and Tower, we have agreed to try Ni

types of operations which will be discussed, although it was

generally recognized that. it would be impossible to avoid

discussing the Soviet target specifically.

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learned that the SSC Staff is aware of the fact (from materia }
turned over to them by CIA) that CIA "participated in a serie:
of electronic surveillance operations in the U.S." The info7y- Oo"

mation is contained in a single par
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-York City."

"Included among them are ‘operations. against. the.
c€zech Embassy, the UAR Embassy, the Chilean Embassy,;,.

agraph, which goes on to;

“«the Soviet Consulate in San Francisco, the present >
Soviet Embassy, the planned Soviet Embassy, -and-the. _
quarters occupied by the Chinese Communists. in New.”

Z2. This being so, it can be expected that the Staff will
have brought this information to the senators' attention, and

I will be prepared to respond factually to.questions with re-
spect to these operations, which of course were carried out in
pursuit of NSA requirements, and with FBI coordination and/ 5 5 33

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